The Linguistic Connotation of the Musnad Font as a Source of Inspiration for Artistic Works with Conceptual Connotations

Abstract

The Arabic alphabet is closely related to conceptual thought in the plastic arts, as it sometimes appeared in the form of letters or words with a linguistic content related to the content of the artwork. And at other times as symbols that contribute to achieving a state of ambiguity related to the nature of the work, and the importance of Arabic calligraphy comes in that it is distinguished from other languages ​​by its ability to decorate, beautify and decorate, without adding things that beautify it, as it turns by its nature into decorations and ornamental forms, and Arabic calligraphy can be used as an art Beautiful and a medium of expression, Especially since each letter has a special shape, and a certain ratio of length, width, height, decrease, parallel and curvature, as well as what the words fit with each other, which leads the recipient to taste beauty wherever he finds it. The language in its origin is a group of letters that make up its vocabulary, and opinions about the origin of the Arabic language have varied, and some scholars have indicated that the Arabic calligraphy in its origin is derived from the Hamiri script (the Musnad), which is the line of the people of Yemen, and it moved to Iraq. Where the people of al-Hirah learned it, then the people of Anbar learned it, so it was taken by a group to the Hijaz, and a number of researchers studied the ancient Arabic inscriptions and analyzed its letters, which say that the Musnad is the origin of our line in which we write now, and they decided that our writing goes back to the Nabataean line derived from the Aramaic script. Musnad script was widely used in southern Arabia, and it appeared on the Himyarite inscriptions. And before it Saba'i in Yemen, and it is also believed that it disappeared with the beginning of the emergence of the Nabataean alphabet, and its effects have been monitored in the area of ​​the village of Al-Faw in the Arabian Peninsula, and this line possesses a lot of technical capabilities because it tends to draw the letters in an accurate straight drawing in the form of columns, so the letters have a shape Pillar-based architecture.